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June 30, 2010

G79: Rays 9, Red Sox 4

Manny Delcarmen faced five batters in the eighth inning. Single, RBI double, single, walk, 2-RBI single. They all came around to score, as Jason Bartlett hit a three-run home run off Ramon Ramirez to cap the six-run inning. MDC: 0-4-5-1-0, 14.

The Sox rallied a little bit -- singles by Marco Scutaro and Eric Patterson, a two-run double from David Ortiz and a sac fly from Adrian Beltre -- but that was it. Ortiz also doubled in the sixth, driving in Patterson.

Boston missed a chance to move into a first-place tie with New York. A victory tonight also would have given the Red Sox more wins than any team in MLB. The Yankees had only two hits in a 7-0 loss to the Mariners. Felix: 9-2-0-3-11, 115; his complete game followed Cliff Lee's CG win on Tuesday.

rays have posted "email the booth" like 3-4 times already tonight. so i did:

"for years, i have heard rays tv announcers whine about calls going against tampa hitters, pitchers and runner. staats and whoever has been with him (magraine, kennedy, anderson) always whines when anything goes against the rays. is it a job requirement? (you guys are actually famous among other teams' fans for it.) and tonight, it starts with the ball to ortiz and the strike to shoppach. ... and yet, when a call goes in the rays' favor, you never say a thing. ... umpires blow calls, it happens all the damn time. and they go both ways. try to deal with it."

Wow that was fast! Maybe the concessions did a quick calculation and decided they might not have enough beer on hand for a full Dice-K night.

Haha. I remember several years ago we were at Fenway during a very long rain delay. It was the last night either before a long away streak or maybe even before the All Star break. Anyway, they ran out of food before finally calling the game. No food to be found anywhere. Not many fans left and we ended up playing baseball trivia at a table with people we didn't know.

great discussion about jeff neimann. he has a 2.72 era (4th in AL?) but he apparently needs more wins to get any serious all-star consideration. however, he has pitched well, but has been unlucky and does not have the wins to show for it. so yeah he has that great ERA but he really needs a couple more wins to show everyone that he is a good deserving pitcher.

Eric Patterson must not have got the memo. When you're an unknown player in your first game for the Red Sox ar Fenway Park this season, you're supposed to do something dramatic in your first at-bat. He grounded into a double play.